Madame Sophie Vera-Lorini
(1815-1882)
9 May 1863

Volume 10, page 216, sitting number 13,233. 

Born in Rome in 1815, the soprano Sofia [or Sophie] Vera-Lorini was the daughter of the Italian lawyer Giuseppe Vera and the German singer Charlotte Häser. She married the singer, impresario and theatre director Achille Lorini. 

According to Grove Music Online, she was 'much admired for her interpretations of Gluck, Mozart and Beethoven.' 

Her brother Edoardo Vera (1821-1889) composed two operas for her, Adriano Lecouvreur, first performed in Florence in 1859, and Valeria, first performed in Bologna on 16 March 1869.

In 1863 the two siblings were in London and appeared in concert together at a 'Matinée Musicale d'Invitation at Dudley House, Park-lane (by kind permission of the Earl of Dudley) on Wednesday, June 24, at three o'clock. The second part of the Concert will be devoted to Signor Vera's compositions. Madame Vera-Lorini will appear on this occasion' (Morning Post, 2 June 1863). 

Madame Vera-Lorini died at Livorno on 8 January 1882. 

[For further details of her career see Großes Sängerlexikon (Volume 4) by Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens, 2003.]